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US 12,599,183 B2Granted
Formed brassiere and associated method of manufacture
AssigneeVeil Intimates LLC
InventorsNancy Trangmar, Meghan Marsden
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Abstract
A brassiere and associated method of manufacture is presented. A graticulate support member is producible by additive printing. The graticulate support member may be positioned between each of a first cup cover and a second cup cover of the brassiere. The graticulate support member may include a thickness gradient devised to maintain rigidity of the formed cup from a maximum thickness medially centered at a first edge of the graticulate support member towards a minimum thickness realized at the extremity of a second edge.
Claims20
A brassiere comprising:
- a pair of cups each having:
- a first cup cover and a second cup cover;
- a graticulate support member disposed between the first cup cover and the second cup cover;
- wherein the graticulate support member comprises an integrated arrangement of angled interlacing members disposed between a first edge and a second edge;
- and
- wherein the graticulate support member maintains a domical shape of the cup effective to maintain support of a breasts of a wearer without the need of an underwire.
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A brassiere comprising:
- a pair of cups, each cup having:
- a graticulate support member disposed between a first cup cover and a second cup cover, the graticulate support member comprising:
- a first edge bounding a lowermost extremity of the graticulate support member;
- a second edge bounding an uppermost extremity of the graticulate support member, said second edge diverging from a juncture with the first edge at a proximal apex, said second edge converging to the juncture with the first edge at a distal apex;
- a maximum thickness disposed medially at the first edge;
- a minimum thickness disposed at the second edge including portions of the proximal and distal apex demarked by said second edge;
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- a graticulate matrix disposed between the first and second edges having an integrated arrangement of angled interlacing members disposed between each of the first and second edges;
- wherein the graticulate support member maintains a domical shape of the cup to maintain support of a breasts of a wearer without the need of an underwire.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.